1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 Day 0 Operations: VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Installation
- Describe the challenges of the telco cloud
- Describe the key functions of the telco cloud
- List the benefits of the VMware Cloud Director based VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
- Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure architecture
- Describe the role of VMware Cloud Director in the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure architecture
- List the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure deployment options
- Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
- List the key VMware components that are part of VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the key use cases for the VMware Cloud Director based VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
3 Day 0 Operations: ETSI NFV Requirements for Cloud Platforms
- Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
- List the benefits and challenges of physical infrastructure
- Describe the types of virtual infrastructure
- Describe the advantages and components of the NFV infrastructure (NFVI)
- Explain the role of network virtualization in the NFVI
- List the requirements of NFVI for VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the networking options of VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the key networking use cases
- Describe requirements of VMware Telco Cloud Automation™ for networking
- Describe the storage options of VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the key storage use cases
4 Day 1 Operations: Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) Configuration
- Explain basic concepts related to VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the components of the VMware Cloud Director architecture
- Describe the basic configuration of the VMware Cloud Director architecture
- Describe virtual data centers or VDCs
- Explain the role of organization VDCs
- Describe the relationship between provider VDCs and organization VDCs
- Describe resources in VMware Cloud Director
- List the key resource organization
- Create resource pools
- Describe how vSAN integrates with VMware Cloud Director
5 Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Providers
- Describe how compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
- Describe how storage resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
- Describe provider VDC requirements and best practices
- List the requirements of creating VDCs
- Describe the VNF on-boarding process
- Create provider VDCs
6 Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Organizations
- Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
- Create VMware Cloud Director organizations
- Navigate through the VMware Cloud Director HTML5 provider portal
- Describe the VMware Cloud Director organization VDC
- Navigate through the tenant portal
- List use cases for a VMware Cloud Director organization VDC
- List the organization VDC allocation models
- Describe the types of resources that can be allocated
- Describe how resources are allocated for an organization
- Examine the function and requirements of network pools
- Describe the network types available in VMware Cloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
- List the organization network types
- Create and manage organization VDC networks
- Describe catalogs
- Manage an organization’s catalog
- Populate, share, and publish catalogs
- Describe vApps
- Manage access to vApps and catalogs
- Modify the configuration of vApps and their virtual machines (VMs)
- Manage organization VDC networking
- Create affinity and anti-affinity rules
7 Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Security
- Describe role-based access
- Create custom security roles
- Describe the directory services in VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the role of LDAP, SAML, SSL, Kerberos, and OAuth2 with VMware Cloud Director
- Explain the use of VMware Cloud Director with SSO
8 Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Networking
- List networking options in VMware Cloud Director
- Describe key networking use cases in VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the use and placement of VMware NSX® Edge™ services gateways in relation to VMware Cloud Director
- Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateways in combination with VMware Cloud Director
- Describe firewall management in VMware Cloud Director with edge services gateways and the distributed firewall
- Describe an overview of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center
- Explain the architecture of NSX-T Data Center
- Describe VMware Cloud Director supported features of NSX-T Data Center
- Describe the benefits and challenges of multisite networking
- List the requirements for multisite networking
- Describe the benefits and challenges of networking between VDCs
- List the requirements for networking between VDCs
- Configure cross-VDC networking
9 Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Resource Management and Monitoring
- Identify the key resources that need to be managed with VMware Cloud Director
- List monitoring options with VMware Cloud Director
- Explain the resource management and monitoring architecture in VMware Cloud Director
- Monitor objects from the VMware Cloud Director portal
- Identify features of VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
- Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
- Configure VMware vRealize® Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director™
- Outline the monitoring features of vRealize Operations Manager in VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the purpose of the vRealize Operations Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director
- Integrate VMware Cloud Director with the Tenant App
- Configure the Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director
- Monitor objects with the Tenant App
- List the steps to monitor VMware Cloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager
- List the steps to monitor VMware Cloud Director environments with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
- List the steps to review historical virtual machine metrics in VMware Cloud Director
- Examine VMware Cloud Director logs
10 Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Troubleshooting
- Identify the features of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboards
- List the components of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboards
- Explain the features of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Director
- Describe the use of fault management in VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the use of performance management in VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the use of logs in VMware Cloud Director
- Troubleshoot using VMware Cloud Director
